Luke Harding, The Guardian: Cyber-attack is brutal reminder of the Russia problem facing Joe Biden
Analysis: new president must find a way to contain such hyper-aggressive behaviour from Moscow
It is Joe Biden’s biggest foreign policy headache. As well as confronting the Covid pandemic, the president-elect has to deal with a more familiar problem: Russia.
Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential election cast a shadow over US politics for four long years.
And now the Kremlin appears to have struck again.
This week details emerged of an unprecedented cyber-attack against US government departments.
Beginning in March, suspected Russian hackers penetrated Washington’s signature institutions.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 18, 2020
Can Biden Unwind Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Venezuela and Iran? -- Judah Grunstein, WPR
The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific -- Sheldon Chanel, Al Jazeera
Cutting Off Saudi Arabia Would Only Embolden its Worst Impulses -- Maya Carlin, National Interest
Are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan untying the knot? -- Jennifer Holleis, DW
Why Belarusians Are Turning Against Russia -- Artyom Shraibman, Moscow Times
What do US sanctions on Turkey mean for NATO? -- Alex Gatopoulos, Al Jazeera
How will Turkey respond to US sanctions? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Why Retired Generals Rarely Lead the Pentagon -- Dwight Stirling, AP
Coronavirus: What does Emmanuel Macron's infection mean for other EU leaders? -- Barbara Wesel, DW
”Now It’s Totally Dead”: Can Small Businesses Survive COVID’s Economic Wrecking Ball? -- William Cohan, Vanity Fair
US experts debate: Who should be next in line for vaccine? -- Mike Stobbe, AP
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Again, what Russian problem? The Left is the entity who cast doubts on the 2016 elections with allegations proven over and over to be lies.
Biden's biggest foreign policy problem resides in his son Hunter and in Beijing.
Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was 'pretty clearly' Russian
Clerky is back with his typical sources. Alright clerky, did you read your article?
The great hack attack SolarWinds breach exposes big gaps in cyber security
Did you read your source clerky?
Russia is behind the massive, ongoing cyber spy campaign against the federal government and private sector, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday — the first Trump administration official to publicly blame Moscow for the computer hacks.
“This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity,” said Pompeo in an interview with “The Mark Levin Show.”
Until now the administration has refrained from attributing the operation and President Trump, who has long expressed skepticism that Russia engaged in interference in the 2016 election, has not publicly addressed the issue.
Pompeo’s remarks come as government agencies and affected companies are scrambling to figure out the scope of the breaches, how the Russians carried them off without being detected for months and how to prevent future compromises.
The intrusions into federal agencies were first revealed last weekend, and with each day more agencies were discovered to have been breached. Besides the State Department, the list so far includes the Treasury, Homeland Security, Energy and Commerce Departments, as well the National Institutes of Health.
Pompeo said he could not say much more about the hacks as the investigations were ongoing.
“But suffice it to say, there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems, and it now appears systems of private companies and companies and governments across the world as well,” he told Levin, a syndicated radio talk show host.
Pompeo did not specify which branch of the Russian government carried out the campaign, but U.S. officials have privately said they believe it is the foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which is a successor organization to the KGB.
Did you read your source clerky?
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